Available Jack Vance Ebooks

Big Planet is a fantastic world populated by an odd assortment of splinter societies, where beauty and evil dwell in uneasy proximity. The tyrant Charley Lysidder- self-styled "Bajarnum of Beaujolais"- seeks to rule the planet, and ... Read more

From Handbook of the Inhabited Worlds: "Big Planet lies beyond the frontier of terrestrial law, and has been settled by groups impatient with restraint: non-conformists, anarchists, fugitives, religious dissidents, misanthropes, ... Read more

The star Phaedra shines on Big Planet, a low-density world three times the diameter of Earth. Colonized long-ago during the first expansion of stellar colonization, the legions of original settlers—characterized by cultural ... Read more